You can read my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED to learn more about this, but Shira’s point is even sharper than she knows: the origin of the term is as fictional and and troubled as its current usage, meaning that from top to bottom it’s a phrase that produces chaotic outcomes.

“I don’t think there’s a phrase that better characterizes the Internet we have now than, 'Nothing is true, everything is permitted.'" - @shirachess.bsky.social Stream and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWOp...

I recently chatted with @rushkoff.com on Team Human to discuss about my new @mitpress.bsky.social book, The Unseen Internet. We talked about the esoteric wallpaper of the internet, meme magic, AI, and a whole lot of technological woo...

The counterculture spent the 90s trying to destroy consensus reality. It worked. We just didn't have a plan for what came next. Stream and subscribe my conversation with @shirachess.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWOp...

Great convo between @shirachess.bsky.social & @rushkoff.com :))) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWOp...

It's too easy to look at Epstein's world and say, "Those people are a different species." They're not, and that's what we need to reckon with. In one of my most urgent Team Human monologues, I discuss Epstein, Dawkins, and the banality of evil. Stream & subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGvo...

One of the most important Team Human monologues I've recorded. This is my indictment of the permission structure built by the scientific and tech elite. A worldview that dismisses human soul, consent, and morality as mere delusions. Stream now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGvo...

I was explaining to my class that magic isn't real. Real magic would be if I pointed my fingers at a fly and it fell. And when I did that... the fly dropped. Team Human with @mitchhorowitz.bsky.social. Stream and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZVO... Support: www.patreon.com/teamhuman

Welcome to all the people who have joined me over the last few days. I started a playlist for people new to Team Human to learn what we're all about. Featuring conversations with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, @mitchhorowitz.bsky.social, Bo Burnham, monologues & more. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The whole concept of “employment” was invented as a way of preventing us from getting wealthy. Stream and subscribe "The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other" from Team Human www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q62...

Tech billionaires don't care if we survive. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social explains the bunker mentality of the Silicon Valley elite. They believe their wealth will insulate them from the crises they’ve helped accelerate. Stream and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWEM...

How are laws like KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) being used to kill anonymity and harvest biometric data? @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and I discuss on Team Human. Stream and subscribe now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWEM...

Do the tech billionaires building our future actually care if the rest of us survive it? Stream Team Human with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWEM...

Is magic just "positive thinking," or is it a causative force that can reshape reality? I sat down with occult historian and author Mitch Horowitz to explore the boundaries of will, belief, and the material world. Stream and subscribe now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZVO...

We keep framing AI like a person, but that changes how we trust it, fear it, and hand power over to it. Watch now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=47CI...

Corporations invaded the net, took it over and turned it into an accelerationist nightmare. But they are ignoring the real world in the process. They believe they are leaving it behind for something abstract and better. Let them take the net as long as we can take back the real world.

The demand for AI's unbridled growth is reactionary — a way of doubling down on the same old colonizing way of doing things. It doesn't have to be. rushkoff.substack.com/p/is-ai-the-...

Our job as Team Human is not to succumb to the zero-sum mentality of the wealthy. They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity. They are living the nightmare. rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-intent...

If you're not already following @rushkoff.com on all the medias, at least join me Wednesday morning at 10 eastern, when I join him for post-election analysis -- very unlike other post-election analysis! -- live on YouTube. You can click through now to sign up for a notification when we start...!

@andrewslack.bsky.social, comedian and writer of Orphans, Empires, and the Search for a Better World, discusses the hidden history of corporate power, the mythic roots of American identity, and how hope - and solar panels - might just save us all. 📺 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsF2...

A tech bro on acid is just a tech bro on acid.

In his Prison Notebooks, written under the repression of Italian Fascist regime, Antonio Gramsci said politics is downstream of culture But while politics may be downstream of culture, culture is downstream of rapport. If you don’t have rapport, then culture ends up being about difference.

Is sharing too much of a threat to the global economy, or too small to make a difference? Both critiques are trapped in the mindset of scale. As if everything has to or is going to happen all at once. It doesn’t. 📺 Watch, stream, and subscribe Team Human now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDGF...

I'm doing a one-evening event in London on my way back from a thing. July 1. Come if you can! dandelion.events/e/x7o1n

The Genesis P-Orridge documentary is coming out next week. It's all about magic in difficult times... David Hershkovitz and I are doing a conversation following the premiere: www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/s...

I run a Media Studies MA program at CUNY/Queens, and the number of international applications has dropped precipitously. I assume it's fear of being here on a student visa, but wondering if anyone else at a grad program and is noticing the same, and how bad? We're at 10-20% of normal.

How can mystery and safety help us build stronger communities? Radha Agrawal, author of Belong, helps us break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again on a new episode of Team Human. 📺 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Vg...

How can we break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again? Radha Agrawal, Co-Founder of Daybreaker, joins me on a new episode of Team Human. 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/H7VgvXYYh-I 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts: www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/315...

Doing a free online talk for CUNY in three minutes, here: www.cuny.edu/research/res...

I was thrilled to join the brilliant Doug @rushkoff.com on his Team Human podcast to say things that TV news people rarely if ever say about TV news... ...and, of course, to discuss The Fucking News!

A public school district is considering whether to ban my book on tech billionaires, Survival of the Richest, for violating Trump's order on ridding DEI from schools. (I do not argue for giving tech bros equity/inclusion, so I'm not sure what the fuss would be about...) patch.com/illinois/lag...

My great friend Mandy Keifetz's astoundingly well-written novel, Flea Circus, is now available in a new ebook edition: www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...

Can America inform itself through journalism? I asked @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social, Founder of The Fucking News, to discuss the question Walter Lippmann and John Dewey debated a century ago on a new episode of Team Human. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8M4...

"I don't believe that the apocalypse is around the corner. I believe that even if everything is hell, even if everything is shit, that we keep living and we keep finding joy and beauty in it." @mollycrabapple.bsky.social on a new episode of Team Human. Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojJk...

I know it feels less exciting than what's going on in DC, but here's the patient person's response: www.eventbrite.com/cc/mutual-ai...

Hey Berlin! I'm doing a reading next month My book Survival of the Richest hit #10 on German Amazon last night. First time I've seen a number like that in a long time. (Maybe people are coming to see that those tech billionaires may be out for themselves...) bit.ly/4hySoA0

SXSW event announced! "Weirding the Digital: An Invocation." Part speech, part sigil, I'm going to try to help us set a new course. schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...

Coming to Indianapolis for a (free) talk and a visit. blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/2025/01...

I'd be happy with Facebook eliminating content moderation if it *also* eliminated its algorithmic content delivery. If it stopped selecting and editing content in the manner of a publication, then it would not have to follow journalistic guidelines. But FB is no less a publication than the NYT.

"Facebook will also be moving its trust and safety and content moderation team from California to Texas."

Yeah. I'm the last guest on Chris's special show about disinformation, journalism, and public opinion. Very validating way to end the year.

Corleone-Style Diplomacy open.substack.com/pub/rushkoff... @rushkoff.com is one of my best bestie - our ways of thinking have similar quirks and wrinkles and ruffles, and I recommend this post as well as anything else he writes.

I'm facilitating a town hall meeting in Soho Tuesday evening to engage together about "what now?" - followed by some great musical performances. The RSVP is open to anyone who follows this account: hello.cx/rsvp/cx-town...

Somehow, Oz feels like the scariest one yet.

i strongly believe you should start with reposting this bsky.app/profile/andy...

Okay, I'm back on "social media." Let's see if I can do it this time without getting so sickened. I will employ tougher skin and better discretion. Fingers crossed, for us all.

We're debuting Team Human in Real Time, live streamed, this Wednesday April 24 at 1pm. Live call-in, write-in, discussion. Go to teamhuman.fm/live when it happens. Send questions or topics you want discussed in advance to [email protected]